08-15-2014, 05:08 AM
Does anyone know the significance of a iron finger ring in Rome. I've read of a least three. The first was that the ring signified a citizen or freedman, two it was a signifier of senatorial class (Although I thought a gold ring was proper) third it was a Roman Engagement ring. I'd like to know for sure as I have fashioned a ring out of a bit of steel piping and had it engraved with SPQR. While the first definition is the one that I like, I wouldn't mind be in the senatorial class, but I'd hate to think I'm engaged.
